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With nearly 3,000 votes cast, the results of Prospects world thinkers
2015 poll are now in. Voters came to the Prospect website in large
numbers through Twitter and Facebook, and from many countries around
the world.
The top 10 of last years poll was dominated by thinkersincluding the
winner, economist and philosopher Amartya Senwhose work focused
on the social, political and environmental challenges posed by economic
growth in the developing world. However, Sen and others, notably the
economists Raghuram Rajan and Kaushik Basu, are absent from this
years list, which rewards impact over the past 12 months. In their place

in the top 10 are thinkers who are wrestling, in different ways, with the
dysfunctions of what some persist in calling the developed world. 2014
was Thomas Pikettys yearas of January 2015, his book Capital in the
Twenty-First Century had sold a remarkable 1.5m copies worldwide in
several languagesand this is reflected in the French economists
position at the top of our list. The past year has also been one in which
anxieties about the economic, social and political costs of inequality have
moved up the political agenda. Several of the other thinkers in the top 10
particularly Yanis Varoufakis, Naomi Klein, Paul Krugman and Russell
Brand (whose inclusion on the original list of 50 attracted considerable
media coverage, some of it even favourable)share similar concerns. It
is striking, too, that they are all, broadly speaking, on the political left.
One economist who has spoken out against Piketty and in defence of the
1 per cent, the American Greg Mankiw, came near the bottom of the
poll. As was the case last year, there are two women in the top 10, Klein
and Arundhati Roy (in 2013, there were none). And the presence of
Hilary Mantel, Rebecca Solnit and Mona Eltahawy in the top 20 suggests
that feminist critique of various kinds is experiencing a resurgence.

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World thinkers 2015........................................................................................ 3
, 2015..................................................................3
World thinkers 2015..............................................3
The top ten..................................................................................................... 6
Thomas Piketty......................................................................................... 6
2. Yanis Varoufakis.......................................................................................... 7
3. Naomi Klein................................................................................................ 9
4. Russell Brand............................................................................................ 10
5. Paul Krugman........................................................................................... 10
6. Arundhati Roy........................................................................................... 11
7. Jrgen Habermas....................................................................................... 12
8. Daniel Kahneman....................................................................................... 13
9. John Gray................................................................................................ 14
10.Atul Gawande........................................................................................... 14

The top ten

Thomas Piketty

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Its hard to think of a work of economicscertainly not one published in
the past 30 yearsthat has had as extraordinary an impact outside the
guild of professional economists as Pikettys Capital in the Twenty-First
Century

2. Yanis Varoufakis

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3. Naomi Klein

Rex, Mars Jerome

Since 1999s No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, which became a
kind of set text for the anti-globalisation movement, Klein has been
leading the charge against the excesses of consumer capitalism.

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4. Russell Brand

David Fisher/Rex
Dismissed by his opponents as a clownish opportunist, Brand is
nevertheless the most charismatic figure on Britains populist left
5. Paul Krugman

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David Shankbone
Krugman has attacked supporters of austerity for keeping economies
and their peoplein unnecessary pain. And he is still at it

6. Arundhati Roy

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Augustus Binu
Roy has written widely on the status of women in Indian society,
corporate corruption and Kashmiri independence, and, in 2014, was an
outspoken critic of Narendra Modi, calling his election as Indias Prime
Minister a tragedy
7. Jrgen Habermas

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Wolfram Huke
As the new Greek Syriza government challenges the rest of Europe over
its unpaid debt, Habermass suggestion that the European Union is in
crisis and needs reform is more relevant than ever

8. Daniel Kahneman

Last year, Steven Pinker described Daniel Kahneman as the worlds

most influential living psychologist

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9. John Gray

Gray is the wests pre-eminent oracle of catastrophe. Since the collapse of

communism, he argues, we have had 25 years of liberal delusion that
has more in common with the religious ideologies it is fighting than it
would like to think

10.Atul Gawande

Amar Karodkar
As well as practising as a surgeon at Brigham and Womens Hospital in
Boston, Gawande is a staff writer at the New Yorker

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from our top ten thinkers:The fall and rise of inequality

Thomas Piketty interviewYanis Varoufakis profileGermanys
nemesisArundhati Roy on the cruelty of Indias caste systemJohn Gray
on the fall of the Berlin wallAtul Gawande on medicine and mortality

11. Robert Lanza, biologist

Dr. Robert Lanza Named One of TIME Magazine's 100 Most

Influential People in the World.

12. Hilary Mantel, novelist/essayist

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Hilary Mantel is a British novelist and author best known

for her two Booker-Prize-winning novels of historical
fiction, Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the ...
13. Anne Applebaum, journalist

Writer and journalist Anne Applebaum attends a discussion

of her new book: 'Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern
Europe, 1944-1956' at the Bertelsmann ...
14. Rebecca Solnit, writer/feminist

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Rebecca Solnit is one of the key figures in fourth wave

feminism. Her 2014 book Men Explain Things To Me, was
a publishing sensation and helped to ...

15. Mona Eltahawy, feminist Muslim

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Mona Eltahawy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ona Eltahawy is a

freelance Egyptian-American journalist and commentator based in New
York City. She gained American citizenship in 2011. She has written
essays and op-eds for publications worldwide on Egypt and the Islamic
world, including women's issues and Muslim political ... She described
herself as "a secular, radical feminist Muslim" in a 2011 ...

16. David Chalmers, philosopher

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From Wikipedia.David John Chalmers (/tlmrz/;[2] born 20 April

1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in
the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at
the Australian National University. He is also Professor of Philosophy at
New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy.[3] In 2013,
he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
17. Reza Aslan, historian of religion

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From Wikipedia,..Reza Aslan (Persian: , IPA: [ez sln];

born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American author, public intellectual,
religious studies scholar, producer, and television host. He has written
three books on religion: No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and
Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious
Extremism in the Age of Globalization,[2] and Zealot: The Life and Times
of Jesus of Nazareth. Aslan is a member of the American Academy of
Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the International Qur'anic
Studies Association. He is also a professor of creative writing at
University of California, Riverside.

18. Henry Kissinger, writer/diplomat

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From Wikipedia.Henry Alfred Kissinger (/ksndr/;[1] born Heinz

Alfred Kissinger [hants alft ks]; born May 27, 1923) is an
American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security
Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the
administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. For his
actions negotiating the ceasefire in Vietnam (though never realized),
Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial
circumstances,[2] with two members of the committee resigning in protest.

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Kissinger later sought, unsuccessfully, to return the prize. After his term,
his advice has been sought by world leaders including subsequent U.S.
presidents. A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a prominent role
in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this
period, he pioneered the policy of dtente with the Soviet Union,
orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China,
and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in
the Vietnam War. Kissinger's Realpolitik resulted in controversial policies
such as U.S. support for Pakistan, despite its genocidal actions during the
Bangladesh War.[3] He is the founder and chairman of Kissinger
Associates, an international consulting firm. Kissinger has been a prolific
author of books on politics and international relations with over one
dozen books authored. General opinion of Henry Kissinger is divided in
the West. Several scholars have ranked Kissinger as the most effective
U.S. Secretary

19. Winnie Byanyima, human rights activist

Winnie Byanyima | LinkedIn Oxford, United Kingdom - Executive

Director at Oxfam - Oxfam International Winnie Byanyima, a grass-roots
activist, human rights advocate, senior international public servant, and

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world recognized expert on women's rights, is currently ... Winnie

Byanyima - Huffington Post Winnie Byanyima, a grass-roots activist,
human rights advocate, senior international public servant, and world
recognized expert on women's rights, is the ...

20. Mario Vargas Llosa, writer and politician

From Wikipedia. Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of

Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936), more commonly known as Mario
Vargas Llosa (/vrs jos/;[3] Spanish: [majo agas osa]), is a
Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, college professor, and
recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.[4] Vargas Llosa is one of

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Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the
leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a
larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer
of the Latin American Boom.[5] Upon announcing the 2010 Nobel Prize in
Literature, the Swedish Academy said it had been given to Vargas Llosa
"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of
the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".[6]Vargas Llosa rose to fame
in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los
perros, literally The City and the Dogs, 1963/1966[7]), The Green House
(La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in the
Cathedral (Conversacin en la catedral, 1969/1975). He writes
prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism
and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical
novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the
Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
(1977/1982), have been adapted as feature films. Many of Vargas Llosa's
works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and
his own experiences as a native Peruvian. Increasingly- however- he has
expanded his range, and tackled themes that arise from other parts of the
world. In his essays, Vargas Llosa has made many criticisms of
nationalism in different parts of the world.[8] Another change over the
course of his career has been a shift from a style and approach associated
with literary modernism, to a sometimes playful postmodernism. Like
many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa has been politically active
throughout his career; over the course of his life, he has gradually moved
from the political left towards liberalism. While he initially supported the
Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later
became disenchanted with his policies. He ran for the Peruvian
presidency in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrtico coalition,
advocating classical liberal reforms, but lost the election to Alberto
Fujimori. He is the person who, in 1990, "coined the phrase that circled
the globe",[9] declaring on Mexican television, "Mexico is the perfect
dictatorship", a statement which became an adage during the following
decade. In 1995, he wrote and published a children's book called, Hitos y
Mitos Literarios (English version as "The Milestones and the Stories of
Greatest Literary Works"), which is illustrated by Willi Glasauer, and
published by Crculo de Lectores.[10]

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21. Tyler Cowen, economist

Tyler Cowen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tyler Cowen is an

American economist, academic, and writer. He occupies the Holbert C.
Harris Chair of economics, as a professor at George Mason University, ...

22. Lee Smolin, physicist

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From Wikipedia.Lee Smolin (born 1955) is an American theoretical

physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and
a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the
University of Toronto. Smolin is best known for his contributions to
quantum gravity theory, in particular the approach known as loop
quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to
quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, can be
reconciled as different aspects of the same underlying theory. His
research interests also include cosmology, elementary particle theory, the
foundations of quantum mechanics, and theoretical biology.

23. Linda Scott, economist

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Professor Linda Scott is the Emeritus DP World Chair for

Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Sad Business School, University of
Oxford. Linda is best known for her creation of the concept of the Double
X Economy a perspective that describes the global economy of women
in both the developed and developing world, and the roles of women not
only as consumers, but as investors, donors and workers. She writes a
blog called The Double X Economy, as well as blogging for the World
Economic Forum, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek on gender
issues. Professor Scott has been selected as one of the Top 25 Global
Thinkers by Prospect magazine in both 2014 and 2015. The Double X
Economy concept was featured by a special Financial Times video series
called, Thinking Big in January 2014. Linda was also a finalist for the
Thinkers 50 Breakthrough Thinker award for this same work in 2012.
Many other world press vehicles, from The Economist to BBC, have
covered Linda's research. Linda is founder of Power Shift, the Oxford
Forum for Women in the World Economy. This select forum brings
together 200 leaders from across sectors to think and build partnerships
around empowering women economically. She curates the programme
each year. In 2015, the theme was Women and Markets. In 2014, the
theme was Women and Finance and in 2013, the theme was Women
and Entrepreneurship. Professor Scott is on the External Advisory
Council to the Walmart Womens Economic Empowerment Initiative.
She is also a Senior Fellow of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive
Growth. Linda also serves on the Access to Markets subcommittee of
the International Business Women's Leadership Council. She led a
global initiative to put womens financial inclusion on the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goalsthe #DoubleXPetition. Linda is
invited to speak at many different venues and to many groups. In 2014
and 2015, she spoke at the World Bank and the United Nations. She was
a keynote speaker at the global conference of the World Association of
Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in July 2014.

24. Michel Houellebecq, novelist

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From Wikipedia.Submission (French: Soumission) is a novel by the

French writer Michel Houellebecq.[1] The French edition of the book was
published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion, with German (German:
Unterwerfung) and Italian (Italian: Sottomissione) translations also
published in January.[2][3] The book instantly became a bestseller in Italy,
Germany and France.[4][5] The English edition of the book, translated by
Lorin Stein, was published on 10 September 2015. [6]The novel, a political
satire, imagines a situation in which a Muslim party upholding
traditionalist and patriarchal values is able to win the 2022 presidential
election in France, with the support of France's Socialist Party. The book
drew an unusual amount of attention because, by a macabre coincidence,
it was released on the day of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

25. Elizabeth Blackburn, biologist/bioethicist

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From Wikipedia.Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS,[2] FAA, FRSN

(born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who
is currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.[3]
Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California,
San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of
chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered
telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she
was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it
with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the only
Tasmanian-born Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and
was controversially dismissed from the Bush Administration's President's
Council on Bioethics.
26. Edward Witten, physicist

From Wikipedia.Edward Witten (/wtn/; born August 26, 1951) is an

American theoretical physicist and professor of mathematical physics at
the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Witten is a

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researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum

field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics. In addition to his
contributions to physics, Witten's work has significantly impacted pure
mathematics.[2] In 1990 he became the first and so far the only physicist
to be awarded a Fields Medal by the International Mathematical Union.
In 2004, Time magazine stated that Witten is widely thought to be the
world's smartest living theoretical physicist.
27. Marilynne Robinson, novelist/essayist

From Wikipedia.Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26,

1943) is an American novelist and essayist best known for her novels
Housekeeping (1980) and Gilead (2004). Robinsons novels are noted for
both their mid-20th century American Midwest setting as well as their
thematic depiction of rural life and faith. [1] In addition to her novels,
Robinson is a prolific essayist and commentator. The subjects of her
essays have spanned numerous topics, including the relationship between
religion and science, nuclear pollution, John Calvin, and contemporary
American politics. She has received numerous awards, including the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the 2012 National Humanities Medal,
and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016
Robinson was named to Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential
people.[2]Robinson has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop since 1991,[3]
and plans to retire in the spring of 2016.

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28. Esther Duflo, economist

From Wikipedia.Esther Duflo (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is

a French economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel
Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and
Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Duflo is an NBER Research Associate,[3] serves on the board of the
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD),
[4]
and is Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's
development economics program.[5]Her research focuses on
microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household
behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation.
Together with Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Michael Kremer, John A.
List, and Sendhil Mullainathan, she has been a driving force in advancing
field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal
relationships in economics.

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29. Robert Shiller, economist

From Wikipedia.Robert James "Bob" Shiller (born March 29, 1946)[3] is

an American Nobel Laureate, economist, academic, and best-selling
author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale
University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's
International Center for Finance.[4] Shiller has been a research associate of
the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice
president of the American Economic Association in 2005, and president
of the Eastern Economic Association for 20062007. He is also the
co-founder and chief economist of the investment management firm
MacroMarkets LLC.Shiller is ranked among the 100 most influential
economists of the world.[5] Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Shiller
jointly received the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,
"for their empirical analysis of asset prices".

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30. Jeremy Rifkin, social theorist

From Wikipedia.Jeremy Rifkin (born January 26, 1945) is an American

economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and
activist. Rifkin is the author of 20 books about the impact of scientific
and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and
the environment. His most recent books include The Zero Marginal Cost
Society (2014), The Third Industrial Revolution (2011), The Empathic
Civilization (2010), The European Dream (2004), The Hydrogen
Economy (2002), The Age of Access (2000), The Biotech Century (1998),
and The End of Work (1995).Jeremy Rifkin has been an advisor to the
European Union since 2000. He has advised the past three presidents of
the European Commission and their leadership teams President
Romano Prodi, President Jose-Manuel Barroso, and the current President
Jean-Claude Juncker. Rifkin has also served as an advisor to the
leadership of the European Parliament and numerous heads of state,
including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Nicolas
Sarkozy of France, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of
Spain, Prime Minister Jose Socrates of Portugal, and Prime Minister
Janez Jansa of Slovenia, during their respective European Council
Presidencies, on issues related to the economy, climate change, and
energy security.Rifkin has also been advising the leadership of the
People's Republic of China in recent years. The Huffington Post reported
from Beijing on October 29 that "Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has not
only read Jeremy Rifkin's book, The Third Industrial Revolution, and
taken it to heart. He and his colleagues have also made it the core of the
country's thirteenth Five-Year Plan..." The Huffington Post goes on to say

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that "this blueprint for China's future signals the most momentous shift in
direction since the death of Mao and the advent of Deng Xiaoping's
reform and opening up in 1978."[1] According to EurActiv, "Jeremy Rifkin
is an American economist and author whose best-selling Third Industrial
Revolution arguably provided the blueprint for Germany's transition to a
low-carbon economy, and China's strategic acceptance of climate
policy."[2]Since 1994, Rifkin has been a senior lecturer at the Wharton
School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he instructs CEOs and senior management on transitioning their
business operations into sustainable economies. Rifkin is ranked #123 in
the WorldPost / HuffingtonPost 2015 global survey of "The World's Most
Influential Voices." He is also listed among the top 10 most influential
economic thinkers in the survey.[3]Rifkin is also the President of the TIR
Consulting Group, LLC,[4] comprising many of the leading renewable
energy companies, electricity transmission companies, construction
companies, architectural firms, IT and electronics companies, and
transport and logistics companies. His global economic development
team is working with cities, regions, and national governments to develop
the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure for a Collaborative Commons
and a Third Industrial Revolution. The TIR Consulting Group LLC is
currently working with the regions of Hauts-de-France in France,[5] the
Metropolitan Region of Rotterdam and The Hague,[6] and the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg[7] in the conceptualization, build-out, and scale-up
of a smart Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure to transform their
economies.

30. Evgeny Morozov, writer/tech theorist

Evgeny Morozov (Russian: , Belarusian:

) is a writer and researcher of Belarusian origin who studies
political and social implications of technology. From Wikipedia.

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32. Joshua Wong, activist

From Wikipedia. Joshua Wong Chi-fung (Chinese:, born 13 October

1996)[3] is a Hong Kong student activist who is the secretary general of
Demosist, a political party. Before that, he was the convenor and
founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism.[3][4] He was
a student at the United Christian College (Kowloon East), and is now a
student of the Open University of Hong Kong.[5] He led fellow Hong
Kong students in a massive Occupy protest in 2014 that demanded
genuine universal suffrage. Due to his influence in Hong Kong's prodemocracy movement, he was named as one of TIME's Most Influential
Teens of 2014, nominated for TIME's Person of the Year 2014.[6] and
listed by Fortune as one of the world's greatest leaders in 2015.

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33. Pankaj Mishra, writer/journalist

From Wikipedia..Pankaj Mishra (Pakaja Mir; born 1969, Jhansi,

Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian essayist and novelist and a recipient of
the 2014 WindhamCampbell Prize for non-fiction.

34. Paul Collier

From Wikipedia.Sir Paul Collier, CBE (born 23 April 1949)[1] is

professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of
Government at the University of Oxford. He is also a director of the
International Growth Centre, the director of the Centre for the Study of
African Economies, and a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. From
1998 until 2003 he was the director of the Development Research Group
of the World Bank. In 2010 and 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy
magazine to its list of top global thinkers.[2][3] Collier currently serves on
the advisory board of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP).

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35. Andrew Sullivan, writer/journalist

From Wikipedia.Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is an

English author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a conservative political
commentator, a former editor of The New Republic, and the author or
editor of six books. He was a pioneer of the political blog, starting his in
2000. He eventually moved his blog to various publishing platforms,
including Time, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and finally an independent
subscription-based format. He announced his retirement from blogging in
2015.Sullivan's conservatism is rooted in his Roman Catholic background
and in the ideas of the British political philosopher Michael
Oakeshott.Born and raised in England, he has lived in the United States
since 1984 and currently resides in Washington, D.C.,[4] and
Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is openly gay and a practicing Roman
Catholic.

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36. Anat Admati, economist

The George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics. Professor

of Management Science and Engineering (by courtesy), School of
Engineering. Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of
Humanities and Sciences. Academic Area: Finance. Bio Anat Admati is
the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. She has written
extensively on information dissemination in financial markets, trading
mechanisms, portfolio management, financial contracting, and, most
recently, on corporate governance and banking. Since 2010, she has been
active in the policy debate on financial regulation, particularly capital
regulation, writing research and policy papers and commentary. She is a
coauthor of the book, The Bankers New Clothes: Whats Wrong with
Banking and What to Do about It. She was also named by Time
Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and by
Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the 100 global thinkers in 2014.

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37. Diane Coyle, economist

From Wikipedia.Diane Coyle, OBE (born February 1961), is an

economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She is ViceChairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British
Broadcasting Corporation, and was a member of the UK Competition
Commission until its termination in April 2014. She is a part-time
professor at the University of Manchester. Coyle was born in Bury,
Lancashire,[4][5] and attended a grammar school, where a teacher engaged
her "very sceptical and mathematical" mind with the logical way of
thinking required in economics.[5] She did her undergraduate studies at
Brasenose College, Oxford, reading philosophy, politics, and economics,
before gaining an MA and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University,
graduating in 1985[6][7] with thesis titled The dynamic behaviour of
employment (wages, contracts, productivity, business cycle).

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38. Pia Mancini, digital activist

World Thinkers 2015: Pia Mancini. Digital activist.

Argentina by Prospect Team / February 16, 2015

n 2014, Manicini founded a new political party, Partido de la Red (The

Net Party), and an app to go with it, DemocracyOS, which is due to
launch in March. The app will allow users to provide immediate reactions
to issues on the political agenda. Mancinis party received 22,000 votes in
their first election back in October 2013 and expect that number to soar
with the release of DemocracyOS. In her 2014 TED talk, Mancini said
that her aim was to transform noise and silence into signal and finally
bring our democracies to the 21st century.

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39. Cody Wilson, libertarian theorist/activist

In 2012, when still a law student at the University of Texas in Austin,

Cody Wilson announced in a You Tube video that he would soon be able
to print a gun, which he called the Liberator, using a 3-D printer. He
managed to do just that the following year, and set up a nonprofit
organisation called Defense Distributed, from whose website anyone can
download the design. Wilsons exploits in DIY firearms manufacturing,
as well as his involvement in the development of a wallet for the digital
currency Bitcoin, reflect his libertarian allergy to state power or
regulation of almost any sort (he calls himself a crypto-anarchist). He
was the subject of a New Yorker profile in 2013 and in January this year
he was voted the fifth most dangerous person on the internet by Wired
magazine.
39. John Goldthorpe, sociologist

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From Wikipedia. For the rugby league footballer of the 1890s, see John
Goldthorpe (rugby league). John Harry Goldthorpe FBA (born 27 May
1935) is a British sociologist working at the Department of Social Policy
and Intervention, University of Oxford as well as being an emeritus
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.[1] He works in the areas of social
stratification, macrosociology, and recently cultural consumption. He has
made important contributions to the practical application of sociological
Rational Choice Theory. He was editor of Sociology 1970-1973. He was
a student of David Glass at the London School of Economics.

41. Binyavanga Wainaina, writer/activist

From Wikipedia.Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina (born 18 January

1971) is a Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize for
African Writing. In April 2014, Time magazine included Wainaina in its
annual TIME 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World."
42. Christopher Clark, historian

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From Wikipedia. "Christopher Clark" redirects here. For other uses, see
Christopher Clark (disambiguation) and Chris Clark (disambiguation).
Sir Christopher Munro "Chris" Clark (born 14 March 1960) is an
Australian historian working in England. He is the twenty-second Regius
Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In 2015 he was
knighted for his services to Anglo-German relations.

43. Linda Colley, historian

From Wikipedia.Linda Colley, CBE, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS (born 13

September 1949 in Chester, England) is a British historian of Britain,
empire and nationalism. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958
Professor of History at Princeton University in the United States.Colley is
married to fellow historian David Cannadine Linda Colley took her first
degree in history at Bristol University before completing a doctorate on
the Tory Party in the eighteenth century at the University of Cambridge.
She subsequently held a Research Fellowship at Girton College, a joint
lectureship in history at Newnham and King's Colleges,[2] and in 1979
was appointed the first woman Fellow at Christ's College, where she is
now an Honorary Fellow.

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44. Jean Tirole, economist

From Wikipedia. Jean Tirole (born 9 August 1953) is a French professor

of economics. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory,
banking and finance, and economics and psychology. In 2014 he was
awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis
of market power and regulation.Tirole received engineering degrees from
the cole Polytechnique in Paris in 1976, and from the cole nationale
des ponts et chausses in 1978. He graduated as a member of the elite
Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests. Tirole pursued graduate studies at
the Paris Dauphine University and was awarded a DEA degree in 1976
and a Doctorat de troisime cycle in decision mathematics in 1978. In
1981, he received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology for his thesis titled Essays in economic theory, under the
supervision of Eric Maskin.

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45. Mao Yushi, economist

From Wikipedia. Mao Yushi (Chinese: born 14 January 1929 in Nanjing,

Jiangsu) is a Chinese economist. Mao graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University in 1950 and was labeled a 'rightist' in 1958. In 1986 Mao was
a visiting scholar at Harvard University and in 1990 Mao was a senior
lecturer at Queensland University. On 4 May 2012, Mao Yushi was
awarded the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty
for his work in classical liberalism and free-market economics.[3][4] In
October 2014, Beijing began a "crackdown on dissent" by banning the
publication of Mao's works. Criticism of Mao Zedong. Mao Yushi wrote
an online column criticizing the communist and totalitarian policies of
Mao Zedong in China. He was attacked by Maoists in the country who
called for his arrest.

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45. Greg Mankiw, economist

From Wikipedia. Nicholas Gregory Mankiw; born February 3, 1958) is

an American macroeconomist and the Robert M. Beren Professor of
Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for
his work on New Keynesian economics. Mankiw has written widely on
economics and economic policy. As of April 2016, the RePEc overall
ranking based on academic publications, citations, and related metrics put
him as the 23rd most influential economist in the world, out of nearly
50,000 registered authors. He was the 11th most cited economist and the
9th most productive research economist as measured by the h-index.[1] In

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addition, Mankiw is the author of several best-selling textbooks, writes a

popular blog,[2] and since 2007 has written a column, approximately
monthly, for the Sunday business section of The New York Times.Mankiw
is a conservative[4][5][6][7] and has been an economic adviser to several
Republican politicians. From 2003 to 2005, Mankiw was chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. In 2006,
he became an economic adviser to Mitt Romney, and he worked with
Romney during the presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

47. Danielle Keats Citron, privacy advocate

World Thinkers 2015: Danielle Keats Citron. Lawyer, privacy advocate.

United States. by Prospect Team / February 16, 2015. The worlds leading
authority on internet harassment or trolling, Citron, a professor of law
at the University of Maryland, last year published Hate Crimes in
Cyberspace. She argues for stronger protections for individual privacy
and the criminalisation of so-called revenge porn. Her opponents argue
that attempts to regulate speech on the internet are unacceptable
infringements of freedom of speech.

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48. Bruce Katz, policy adviser/academic

World Thinkers 2015: Bruce Katz. Policy advisor and academic. United
States by Prospect Team / February 16, 2015

Bruce Katz. A former advisor to Barack Obama, Katz published The

Metropolitan Revolution with Jennifer Bradley in 2014, in which they
outlined the importance of a network of global trading cities. Currently a
vice president of the Brookings Institution, he focuses on the health and
prosperity of cities and metropolitan areas.

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49. Robert Plomin, psychologist

From Wikipedia. Robert J. Plomin (born 1948) is an American

psychologist best known for his work in twin studies and behavior
genetics. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002,
ranked Plomin as the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th
century.Plomin earned a B.A. in psychology from DePaul University in
1970 and a Ph.D. in psychology in 1974 from the University of Texas at
Austin under personality psychologist Arnold Buss. He then worked at
the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. From 1986 until 1994 he worked at Pennsylvania State
University, studying elderly twins reared apart and twins reared together
to study aging and is currently at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's
College London). He has been president of the Behavior Genetics
Association, which in 2002 awarded him the Dobzhansky Memorial
Award for a Lifetime of Outstanding Scholarship in Behavior Genetics.
He was awarded the William James Fellow Award by the Association for
Psychological Science in 2004[2] and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement
Award of the International Society for Intelligence Research.[3] Plomin
was ranked among the 100 most eminent psychologists in the history of
science.

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50. Gilles Kepel, political scientist

From Wikipedia. Gilles Kepel (born 30 June 1955) is a French political

scientist and specialist on the Islamic and contemporary Arab world.[1][2]
He is Professor at Sciences Po Paris and member of the Institut
Universitaire de France.He graduated in Arabic and philosophy, with two
PhDs in sociology and political science.[2] He also taught at New York
University in 1994, and at Columbia University in 1995. He chaired the
Philippe Roman chair in History and International Relations at the
London School of Economics in 20092010.He contributes regularly to
Le Monde, The New York Times, La Repubblica, El Pais, and several
Arab media outlets. He is a member of the High Council of the Arab
World Institute and Academic Director of the Kuwait Program at IEP. In
2010, he was appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France.[3] He was
interviewed in the 2004 BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares:
The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear.